Gary shooting: Pen Standifer, 65, shot and killed in his driveway in the 4100 block of West 23rd Avenue in Gary, Indiana police say

GARY, Ind. (WLS) — Pen Standifer was about to get into his car to go to work Saturday morning when he was shot to death in his northwest Indiana driveway.

The crime shocked his family and neighbors, who say the 65-year-old mostly kept to himself.

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On this quiet Gary street, you have to look closely to spot the remnants of what was a heavy police presence Saturday morning after shots rang out in the 4100 block of West 23rd Avenue.

“I was in my backyard, letting my dogs out, and it looks like it happened here,” neighbor Daniel Hightower said.

Pen Standifer suffered several gunshot wounds.

The 65-year-old man was in his driveway around 9 a.m., about to head to his job on the Indiana Toll Road, and collapsed in his backyard.

A neighbor says she and her son heard the gunshots.

“We waited for a second and then we went out to see, because someone needed help, because I heard a voice screaming,” she said.

Standifer was pronounced dead at a Gary hospital.

The shooting left his neighbor in shock. She said he lived alone and looked out for others.

“It breaks my heart that this happened to him. He was a good guy,” the neighbor said.

Standifer's sister says he may have been the victim of a potential carjacking and was shot when he refused to turn over his car.

Gary police are investigating the shooting.